1 The absurdity of the situation made everyone laugh.

2 The conversation trailed off into absurdity.

3 Duncan laughed at the absurdity of the situation.

4 The fallacy has been exposed in its naked absurdity.

5 The proposal borders upon the absurdity.

6 I find myself growing increasingly angry at the absurdity of the situation.

7 This answer reaches the height of absurdity.

8 I had to laugh at the absurdity of the scene.

9 Crazy logic had reached the ultimate apogee of absurdity - or perhaps not quite.

10 That leads to the social absurdity of the poorer members of society paying taxes to subsidize the richer.

11 Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson 

12 My brain wandered off surveying the amorous absurdity of it.

13 Behind the current absurdity here lies a novel assertion by House Speaker Newt Gingrich that has gone unexamined for too long.

14 The absurdity of describing a nationality she distrusted to a man she knew she loathed struck her at once.

15 The modern anguish stems from the absurdity of the allegory, once its center, divine Will, is removed.

16 He conveys vividly the absurdity of a situation, but he is incurious about the underlying processes which shape it.

17 Initially, it was the existential absurdity of his predicament that reduced Sooty to silence.

18 Standing there naked, I was suddenly struck by the absurdity of the situation.

19 It was only later that she could see the absurdity of the situation.

20 Love is often a victim of its stubbornness, sentimentality, irrationality and absurdity. Dr T.P.Chia 

21 The writers have a long way to go to scale these Olympian heights of absurdity, but they're trying.

22 In the womenswear industry, designers can offer panache without absurdity through color, varying hemlines, adornment and more.

23 The sheer cost of trained staff and the difficulties with obtaining spare parts are two indications of the absurdity of the idea.

24 His own career is an exemplar of survival in the face of absurdity as well as adversity.

25 Still, as a post-Calvino performance, this novel has the merit of being fairly convincingly dissatisfied with its own absurdity.

26 Parliamentary material is admissible where the legislation is ambiguous, uncertain or leads to an absurdity.

27 They hacked and sliced at one another till there was no meaning left, only a confusion of bloodthirsty syllables spelling out absurdity.

28 But the person with sufficient reason for his faith can avoid the otherwise powerful down-tow toward nonsense and absurdity.

29 Sufficient to say I was deeply embarrassed, and the time has come to put an end to this absurdity.

30 Thus Hazlitt piles up instances of how humour results from surprise, incongruity, absurdity and misunderstanding.

1 The absurdity of the situation made everyone laugh.

31 Again, rationality is the alternative to absurdity, but it has no quarrel with mystery.

32 And at the apex of this compromise is an absurdity.

33 The effect of contrast and seeming absurdity is revealed in vivid examples.

33 Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

34 This is a fatal absurdity.

35 Well-meaning ineptitude rises to empyreal absurdity.

36 Besides, Vonnegut employs black humor to expose the absurdity of the society.

37 Irish playwright Samuel Beckett was a man who weighed his words, a solitary, lonely figure obsessed by silence, whose works struggled to express the absurdity of life.

38 So it is sheer absurdity to say China is exporting currency deflation to Japan.

39 She recognized the absurdity of dealing with them through intermediaries.

40 John Maynard Keynes, the great 20 th - century economist, would have appreciated the absurdity in these mixed messages.

41 So balance is Camus' hidden line, which correspond to absurdity in his works.

42 The world is glue, pitch, paste—always too pliant; a dough that softly kneads the kneader, and whispers to the hand the material absurdity that it should loosen its grip, renounce its labor.

43 In writing about the year that followed the fatal heart attack of John Gregory Dunne, her husband of nearly 40 years, Ms Didion used her experience to reflect on the fundamental absurdity of death.

44 In Biography of A Q, absurdity indicates reality, embraces tact, and penetrates deepness and weightiness.

45 His face was coarse - slack from illness, suffering, and absurdity.

46 This paper is intended to make a study of truth and absurdity of expressionism in Castle.

47 He was dressed for the pantomime, in all the absurdity of a clown's costume.

48 His specialty is his ability to identify a phrase, a voguish morsel of talk, from the business universe and nudge it into the realm of absurdity.

49 Augustine (On Jn. tr. 34, 8f). A convenient, festive messianism , without strength and responsibility is an absurdity, it is even satanism (Mt 16, 23).

50 I earn for thanks two samples of blind ingratitude, stupid to absurdity!

51 As the national debate over fiscal policy descends ever deeper into penny-pinching, future-killing absurdity, one voice is curiously muted - that of President Obama.

52 The part of the war develops along with war's three main characteristics as follow: the absurdity of war, the brutality of war, and the powerfulness of war.

53 The slightest stretch of any truth will produce an absurdity.

54 The film was written by both of them (and directed by Moll) with a flair that makes any illogicality or absurdity in this set-up seem perfectly natural.

55 But on this pretext it would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!

56 Camus argued that not absurdity but absurd outcome is important.

57 The philosophizing novelist built an entire worldview on the sense that absurdity is an unsurpassable given of human experience.

58 Stephen Spruiell at the NRO noted the absurdity of Krugman's complaint that bloggers might use the same responses to rebut Krugman's repeated statements of the same ideology.

59 It emphasizes the absurdity of the world and the nihility of human life.

60 His story of being kidnapped by little green men was sheer absurdity.

61 Here are several of the top ten April Fool's Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the US website of Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped.

62 The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

63 There are also April Fool letters. They are composites of prankishness, deception, absurdity , folk verses, and love.

64 This behavior may appear to be the height of absurdity to some, though those with experience in these realms understand that it is quite necessary to set boundaries.

65 Dramatic irony also plays an important role in exposing flat characters' absurdity and round characters' defects.

66 April Fool's Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the US website of Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped.http://

67 The original meaning of enlightenment is to explore obscuration , to eliminate absurdity, and to discovery truth.

68 Once aboard we were soon helpless with laughter at the absurdity of it.

69 Joseph Heller's novels reveal the absurdity and corruption of the American ruling clique, and the confusion and madness in the American society.

70 The script is sections of the structure, it is a cyclic structure, the script language also lost traditional narrative and communication function, and become part of absurdity.

71 The Soviet proposals reduced inspection in effect to self inspection and thus to absurdity.

72 But the bare enunciation of such an absurdity as this last renders refutation superfluous.

73 Here are several of the top April Fool's Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the US Museum of Hoaxes website, for their absurdity and number of people duped.

74 But then you come to the third part of this sort of triangular absurdity, and what you get to is big financial institutions with extremely well-paid individuals, in the presumably pure free market.

75 He tries to set his characters in an absurd environment by using these odd plots, letting then speak irrelevantly to each other to show the absurdity of people's living.

76 The real Chinaman may be stupid, but there is no absurdity in his stupidity.

77 Procecutor: I am asking you to recognize the absurdity of the exclusionary rule.

78 He would probably have replied that saying "take three steps forward" or "bend backward" would be the height of absurdity.

79 British design critic John Thakara pointed to the absurdity of the current trend towards hyping design.

80 But, despite its seeming absurdity and nonsensicality, it brings to light the moral weaknesses of the English upper class and other problems in modern English society in a jocular manner.

81 In his initial exploration, Andr6 Malraux tried to use diverse actions to fight against the absurdity of life, but found the limited nature of this program.

82 Absurdity may exist together with tragedy and loftiness but is incompatible with comedy.

83 The non-logicality of narrative methods is represented in three aspects: the disorderliness, contingency, and absurdity in narration.

84 The Diamond Necklace, a short fiction written by Maupassant, is a world of metaphors. In the story, the protagonist Mathilde shifts from self-deception to salvation but ends up with absurdity.

85 Picasso, following in Sesan's footsteps and complying unintentionally with the soul of phenomenalism "going back to the fact in itself", deeply faced the real absurdity of human existence.

86 The paper analyses absurdity in the novel Slaughterhouse - Five on the basis of the text - analysis and existentialism.

87 When the absurdity of this biologism and organicism became obvious, the sociologists completely abandoned the ambitious pretensions of Comte.